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They will never stop... I know a few people that deal dollar stores and people that sell knock offs in the city.. They can copy and reproduce goods within an hour of giving them the product - in any local factory in China. Not just software and such.. but hard tangible goods such as handbags, sneakers, watches, etc...

There are viliages with 4-5 person factories in every home. Just shelling out knock offs 24/7 to people around the world.

If the average pirate in the US can copy software and distribute it illegally (at will) you REALLY think you can stop China? On paper it looks good, but in reality its a farce..

Me personally, I can't do a thing about Chinese piracy. But I would bet you that 60% of the piracy is being done by no more than 100 companies, and if the Chinese government decided to force those companies to pay limited royalties then piracy would decline substantially within 90 days. The problem, of course, is the Chinese government doesn't want to spend its dollars on American software and DVDs. It wants to spend those dollars on things that it can't get by piracy, such as nuclear power plants, Boeing jets, Intel microprocessors, and large numbers of Russian weapons and warships.

I also suspect that the Chinese government is buying some real estate in America using various kinds of front companies, which is good for our country in some ways. Chinese real estate purchases send dollars back to America, support the value of the dollar, and support real estate prices. But purchases of American products generate more jobs and tax revenue in the US, and we need China to step up and start buying more American products.

Just FYI, pirates in the US cannot copy and distribute large amounts of software. They would get caught and prosecuted if they tried to do that. The big software companies put a stop to large scale piracy very quickly. As a percentage of total software and DVD sales, piracy is a small problem in the US and the EU.

That’s nothing... you should see the shit they change when our corporations (I know of two giant ones...but will not mention names, they’re in the paper handling business)....send them documented prototypes to mass produce. I was there when a large corporation unveiled an add-on attachment for a printer that was supposed to feed photo quality paper into it. It made a nice paper shredder.

The Chinese love to arbitrarily substitute what we specify as “high quality” materials for the cheapest garbage when it comes to the internals of these various office machines... anything from gears... to the little rubber pieces that actually “grab” the paper...